An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the difeafe to fome of the following caufes, act- ing feparately, or in greater or lefs combination, and inducing ind:rect or direct debility upon the fyftem. The caufes which induced indirect debi- lity were, i. Fatigue of body or mind,induced by labour, by walking, riding, watching, or the like. It was labour which excited the difeafe fo univerfally among the lower clafs of people. A long walk often induced it. Few efcaped it after a day, or even a few hours fpent in gunning. A hard trotting horfe brought it on two of my patients. Perhaps, riding on horfeback, and in the fun, was the ex- citing caufe of the difeafe in moft of the citizens and ftrangers who were affected by it in their flight from the city. A fall excited it in a girl, and a ffroke upon the head excited it in a young- man who came under my care. Many people were feized with the diforder in confequence of their exertions on the night of the 7th of September, in extinguishing the fire which confumed Mr Dobfon's printing-office, and even the lefs violent exercife of working the fire engines for the par* pofe of laying the duft in the ftreets, added fre- quently to the number of the fick. ■2> Heat,